140 Quotations by Charles Caleb Colton
- 1. A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are ...
- 2. A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of th ...
- 3. All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.
- 4. Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by ...
- 5. Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
- 6. As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as tho ...
- 7. Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
- 8. Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
- 9. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them agai ...
- 10. Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and wa ...
- 11. Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture ...
- 12. Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit; posterity will regard the merit rather ...
- 13. Corruption is like a ball of snow; once it's set a-rolling it must increase.
- 14. Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
- 15. Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot ...
- 16. Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness ...
- 17. Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
- 18. Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
- 19. Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the w ...
- 20. Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.
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